Hi Barry;
Unfortunately, these old work horses seem to have a tendency for the
connectors (card, cable) to 'get flakey'. This shows up at the most
unhelpful times (case opened, something moved PHYSICALLY. Sometimes a
LOOK can be enough to do the damage.)
The cure, for me anyway, is to take the time to Remove/Reinstall all of
the cards, cable ends, (Mother Board end & Drive end both), including
the 'housekeeping' stuff like what goes to the front panel etc. While
you are at it, a good cleaning with a vacuum cleaner wouldn't hurt.
Good luck HTH
Chuck D.
On Saturday, June 25, 2005, at 09:15 AM, Barry Gamble wrote:
A friend's ATA66 type of primary hard drive on his S900 failed to boot
and instead booted from the original 2 Gig SCII drive. After trying
quite a few things to get the primary ATA66 drive to boot, or at least
found/recognized, I suggested he bring over his hard drive to my
place and plug it into my S900 ATA66 PCI card and see if it will boot
on my machine so we could copy some important files off the drive. No
luck. It would not boot from mine either. Then disconnected his
primary HD from my S900 and reconnected up my hard drive to my ATA66
card and sadly now my S900 stopped booting at the happy MAC face. Any
suggestions would be appreciated. Reinstalling an old internal SCII
HD drive that had been working fine will not boot either. Also, can't
seem to get it to boot from CD on either of two CD drives (Ata66 or
internal SCII) drive either but that's not too unusual. Holding down
C key or trying command-option-shift-delete never did work right and
for years had been only able to boot from a CD by using the Startup
Disk Control Panel. My S900 has a 700MHz G4 upgrade card lots of RAM
and a 9 month old ATI video card so I could upgrade to O/S X but
have never made the transition. Stuck on Happy Face. Suggestions
appreciated.
Barry Gamble
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